In addition to these highly credible responses, scholars have also noted various resemblances between Usher and his creator. Eliot claimed Poe as an ancestor in his essay "From Poe to Valery," probably because a portrayal like Usher's suits well the ambience of Eliot's hollow men living in a spiritual and moral wasteland. In this view Usher's wicked work in the underground crypt-not only sealing Madeline up alive but also screwing shut her coffin lid for good measure-made Poe an explorer in the "horrible underground passages of the human soul." Even T.
Upon all objects of the moral and physical universe in one unceasing radiation of gloom." Lawrence, seeing "spiritual vampirism" in Usher's total domination of his sister Madeline, was most interested in the theme of psychological perversity-Poe as a Freudian precursor. To Allen Tate, Poe was more likely the Schopenhauer or Kafka of his time, a protomodern nihilist going against the transcendentalist grain of his time by creating in Roderick Usher "a mind from which darkness … poured forth Translated to film-as in Jean Epstein's French version in 1929 and Roger Corman's American version in 1960-this gothic tale of "struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR" evokes a Poe who was at least the Alfred Hitchcock of his time, a master of mood superbly weaving his spell for the sake of entertainment. Poe." To judge from Poe's most celebrated short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher," the main question is how far ahead of his time he was. Lawrence gave him a laudatory chapter in his Studies in Classic American Literature, and Allen Tate wrote his essay "Our Cousin, Mr. This was one reason Baudelaire and Mallarme translated him into French, D. To his artistic successors Edgar Allan Poe seemed a man ahead of his time.
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